Champions League

October 20th, 2009

The Russian Banana Peel

By: Pedro | Comments 18 Comments

That was the general consensus when another ho-hum Champions League Group draw show came to an end and Rubin Kazan had wound up with Inter, Barcelona and Dynamo Kiev. A banana peel in a group of high-flyers, more or less. One that the well-oiled high powered Barcelona and Inter were planning to avoid slipping on, [...]



October 19th, 2009

Barcelona Vs Rubin Kazan: Bez Buldırabız!

By: Ramzi | Comments 42 Comments

If I say that once upon a time a nation fought for independence and for protecting its unique culture. You will say Catalonia.
If I ask you about the Capital of that Nation, you will say Barcelona.
Now if I will say that the mentioned nation had to face an extreme regime, you will say that’s  Franco’s.
You [...]

September 17th, 2009

Barça vs. Inter postgame aka: What happened?

By: Iggy | Comments 4 Comments

No really, what happened, I missed the 2nd half because I had to go to lab…oh wait 0-0 draw, Italy wins. So I’ll be doing the analysis of the first half and Shadows (present at the liveblogs) has kindly volunteered to help me with the postgame for the 2nd half (which I subsequently edited).
This would [...]

September 16th, 2009

Champions League LiveBlog

By: Iggy | Comments 3 Comments

CL Opener
live feeds available through rojadirecta.org

September 15th, 2009

Champions League Pregame 1 (Eto’o’s Return..kinda)

By: Iggy | Comments 13 Comments

First off, sorry about the lack of activity, I’ve had exams (thank you Kxevin for the support).
Now to Business. It’s our first Champions League game and destiny wanted Eto’o to come back to Our Cathedral, but destiny can wait a few weeks while we visit Italy to see him there. There has been tons of [...]



August 26th, 2009

Here comes the draw!!!!

By: Iggy | Comments 19 Comments

The Champions League draw is tonight (I’ll have another post after it), for those who don’t know (which included me until about 10 minutes ago) the pots are as follows:
Pot 1: Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Milan, Arsenal, Bayern Munich and Sevilla
Pot 2: Lyon, Inter, Real Madrid, CSKA Moscow, FC Porto, AZ, Juventus, and Rangers
Pot [...]

June 1st, 2009

The video! I’m ready to play RIGHT NOW!!!!

By: Kevin | Comments 165 Comments

TV3 showed it today, and a very helpful Barca fan posted it to YouTube. Enjoy, everyone, and lovelymofo has lived up to his her! screen name!

May 28th, 2009

Champions League Trophy in Barcelona

By: Isaiah | Comments 198 Comments

Because I can never really get enough of this:

Category Category: Champions League
May 27th, 2009

Barca 2, Manchester United 0, a.k.a. “Three is a magic number.”

By: Kevin | Comments 116 Comments

I didn’t expect this. I just didn’t. I’m speechless. I’ve watched the match and I am absolutely staggered. Does anyone recall the Chelsea post-match, in which every last member of the ESPN broadcasting crew agreed on the Final prediction:
“No chance” was the consensus. We were going to get killed.
But we, and our beautiful, beautiful game [...]

May 27th, 2009

Champions League Final Liveblog: The Mother of Them All

By: Isaiah | Comments 244 Comments

Here it is, the final, the culmination of a season that has brought us 2 titles already. Barcelona versus Manchester United. This is for all the marbles in the European soccer world. This is what we play for. This. Is. It.
Bring it.
Check out my “interviews” at the Canadian Stretford End and the ManU Offside. Go [...]






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